I feel like HIMYM tried hard to be innovative with jumping around in time and unreliable narration and whatnot, but that the story they are telling with all that is actually pretty conventional and even tedious. Most of the characters - everyone except Marshall, probably - have eroded a great deal of any fondness I might have had for them. But I'll probably keep watching because Monday at 7 is a time when I'd like to be able to turn on the TV and have something be there.

Oh, just to clarify, I stopped watching several seasons ago. I may try to catch up on this re-watch, but I lost interest big time somewhere in Season 4, I want to say. The show was definitely feeling conventional/tedious by that point.

A nice profile on Mindy Kaling from The New Yorker: [link]

I find Kaling generally delightful and am looking forward to her show. The trailer looks like the show would have some watch-from-the-hall moments, but hey, I watched The Office for 4 years.

Oh, hey, mother dying of cancer alert. Maybe I'll read the rest of it later.

I can't work out if it's good or bad that there's so much visibility for her show, but relatively little explanation. Raising Hope got me with its billboards, and with Plimpton and Dillahunt--but the billboards looked like the premise might need a look see.

I am getting zero premise from The Mindy Project--which is fine, since I love her to itty bitty bits based on nothing more than her performance in No Strings Attached. Since I'm not interested in The Office, I stuck to reading stuff about her, and she just seems cool. The snippets from her book got enough of my interest that it's on my Nook, although I'm nowhere near it yet.

I do like the discussion of minority in the bit of the article I did read. It's cool to see someone point out how white stuff is, but she doesn't sound like she's going to be so militant that she's just preaching to the choir.

I do hope it's the sort of thing where people go "Hey! Did I just watch a show about not just a woman, but an Indian descent woman? I don't remember doing that before..."

Clearly she needs a review snippet saying something like "I haven't laughed this hard since Beckham bent it!" --Narrowminded Reviewer

If she (and other characters?) continue to sleep around in a way that is fun and low-stakes (at least some of the time), maybe I can finally stop watching Single Ladies on VH1.

Oh, hey, mother dying of cancer alert.

Yeah, my bad. Prolly should have warned for that. It made me sniffle a bit. From the sound of it, she has more creative control over it than Margaret Cho did over her show. I also like that it looks like a show that's about a professional woman with a messed-up personal life who happens to be Indian-American, rather than a Show About An Indian-American Gal.

The premise of Professional Woman with Messed-up Love Life sounds kinda tired and potentially annoying, but I love Mindy Kaling, so I'll give it a try.

The premise of Professional Woman with Messed-up Love Life sounds kinda tired and potentially annoying

I thought the same, but I quite like the trailer: [link]

Sure, some cliches (well, quite a lot of them, actually) but Kaling is fun to watch. I also like Chris Messina who plays the antagonist / future love-interest person. He's a walking rom-com stereotype but Kaling has an oft-professed love of rom-coms and the whole things appears to be well in her wheelhouse.

Ooh, I hadn't seen the trailer. That's really charming.

It just seems kind of hard to promote is 30 second ads. New Girl should be a good lead in for it, though.

And the cliches are built in to the premise, right? Like, she really wishes her life were a rom-com, but it's not.